Intimations.
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DAKIN BROS. OF CHINA, LIMITED, CHEMISTS, &c. SELECTION FROM WINE & SPIRIT LIST.
- per case of casa of
12 qts
34 pts.
CL'ARET.
...$5.00
FIN ORDINAIRE--An ex- cellent light breakfast
ST. GERMAIN-a pure light wine with a decided character `ST. ESTEPHE—a light dinner
$6.00
་བཞིན་་་་
ST. JULIEN-a good dinner
wing with more body......$ 8.00 CHATEAU LIVRAN 1884......$13,00
BARTON LANGOA
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- rare vintago claret, 1875
SHERRY,
$14.00
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 1891.
An Imperial decree has been issued gran ing to Liu Jal-chi, late Governor of Shansi, now deceased, all the honours due to his exalted
rank
THE Japanese corvette Tenrio, Captain Eudo, srived at Shanghai from Japan on the 9th inst. H.M.S. Linnst, from Ningpo, and Fracech, from Cheloo, returned to Shanghal on the girls noted in the Gassifs that Selor Enrique Oris has been officially recognised as being provisionally in charge of the Spaulab complate at this port.
Inst.
A YOUNG Chinaman was run over by a tram-car at Singapore on the evening of the 5th inst, and terribly mangled
CAPTAIN F. ASHTON, brother of the President of the British Mercantile Marine Officers' Associa tion, Mesars Douglas Lapraik & Cos' agent at Tamsol, arrived here by the Empress of India this morning.
A CHINESE contractor, and to be pretty exte sively patroalued by the local Government, is accused of having been vict mining a number of the residents of Wing Lock Street and other A REGULAR meeting of Victoria Lodge. Na thoroughfares in that neighbourhood, by chang 1016, will be held in Freemasons' Hall, Zetlanding them, on his own "hank, for work con- SEROLANT-MAJOR W. D. Braidwood has been Street, on Saturday, the 31st instant, at 8. go for structed on Government account, and giving promoted Lieutenant in the Hongkong Volun
9.m. precisely. Visiting brethren are cordially them a bogus 'receipt therefor. Several of the tears, wies Henry J. Holmes, resigned,
invited.
It is notified In Saturday's. Goreffe that Mr. G. H. Bateson Wright resumed bis datles as head. master of the Victoria College on the gist plto.
Tax returns of the number of visitors to the City Hall Museum for the week ended November 15thy
are:-Europeane, 18a; Chiness, 1,764; total
1,245.
A NATIVE paper reports several failures of Chinese bankers in Amoy, and says that even per case per bottle the banks in Shansi are feeling the effects of the
present bad times,
VINO GENEROSO-a gener. ous round wine, grin #tal
$6.00 $0.60
VINO. DE PASTO—a medłum dry wine with delicate flavou, red stalu......$10.00 $1,00, AMONTILLÁDO-a high class
-natural wine for connola. sewn of Sherry, yellow seal
********$1200 $130 DELICIOSO-the very finest
sherry procurable, 6 years
in bottle.................$14.00 $1.35
THE Canadian Pacific Roer Empress of India, Capt. O. P. Marshall, R.N.R., arrived is harbour from Vancouver, via Yokohama and Shanghai, shortly after 8 o'clock this morning.
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WE obrave that in a Government nollfication soliciting tenders for an extension to the Magistracy, it is expressly stipulated that the contractor will not be permitted to carry on the work on Sundays. Good t
Tax body of a foreigner named Edwin George. a steward on board the steamer Poyang, who was drowned off the Associsted Wharves, (Shanghai), was recovered on the afternoon of the gth inst, a short distance from where he fell
into the water.
fr is said that the Ruralan army officers are known to be anxious for a fight, and that the present Crar, like his predecessors, has always great respect for stay sentiment. But the time is not yet, although the world is resting on a
lumbering volcano,
contractor's victims have discovered the trick fri
time however, and are going to recovertheir money and show up" the clever trickster. We refrain from publishing details, as we learn that the alleged sharp practice will shortly form the subject of more or less interesting proceedings in the law courts
We find the following in the Straffa Times and give it for whatever it may be worth
lason, Intructed by Mears. Dennys and Monp. defended. The flowing firemen were sworn
H. Mohta, C. Plmer, 1 S. Moses, H. T. Dalrymple, C. A. Tames, T. I. Rose, and H. N. Modr.
the defendants and all their agrats and servants Mr. Francis said that it was ought to restrain
offering for sale ca'ton thread on reels made np. from importing, making,c'meing. ; selling, or labelled, packed and finished in such a way as in imitate the plaintiff well-known article, to pass off as plaintiffs any goods of any other manufacturer. The plaintiffs further asked for of all moners fraudulently obtiined by defendants: through the axle of such goods, and for dames through Infor the trade reputation of Revok Brother ned by the infe for quill y'at the cotton passed off as Brook's mice. The learned cornel then went
en account
Ar
JOTTINGS ON SIAM,
III-COMMERCE.
"The commerce of this kingdom, consisting of
proportions which it might and should have imports, exports and overland trade, considerable no-it-là, bàn by no means raiched ska › feintla
been considerable development of late yours, with altained long ago. Bat the'a han, nevertheless,
every prospect of mars, or Isas rapid inermana
specially in respect to exports) wi hin the next decade.
Year, Imports.
The apgregate values of exorte und Importa far the four years anding 31st December, 1890, are as follows qu
Experta: Total
£
£ BRY-1,657 7077.50° 90356 fo 1888-1812 0032.773674.535.674 1880-191 257.........2.786 280... 137 1890,031,020,209 62.5.840 641 The Increase of 40 per cent, in the exports of › 1800 as compared with there of the previous year may be accounted for by the Increasin the production of rice, the stands export, which forms, in fact, 78 per cent. of the total export trade of the countr.
and Singapore, aro the chief consumers of S'em The two Oriental British enfantes, Hongkong rice as my he proved the flowing efficial returns of the distribution of rice to various countries whicher the "ford-grain" was shipped from Bangkok last year :-
Place of Export.
TOEL
K'URI-CHUN, a Manchu, who for the past two Tax Stamp revenue for the month of October years has been Provincial Treasurer of the totalled $14.996 as against $16,417.13 for the Province, has been appointed Governor' of å «ame period last year, thus showing a filling / Concentrates, is made on the assay of a' sample. | alderably. He did not say the trade mark wa" | Hongkong secunyangetaressenbábrassaco cute.277 Gro Shans vies Lis Jul-chi, deceased.
| off of $1.431.13. Brokers' notes, skære transfers'i It lq not known bow many tons of concentrates actually and exactly copied, but it was a colour Singapore (amendhoocheemahabommene77,596
and charter parties accounted for the major there SIE."-- portion of the deficiency.
* 73,672
**L*TED 2053
· 3 164
EPECUNDA PARomanana 213869
Nos. 22 & 24, QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL. | Melbourne, with the next French mail, Icft | THE-Hubas reports that on the ist of thla monik, apparently without any effort being made to cotton was very much, chexper, and inferior, ·A | China .....................¶BAŞAKER CƏD¶Ã surasizcemania ↑ 132
LONDON, HONGKONG AND AMOY.
A. S. WATSON & CO., LD.
WE
We are informed by the Agent of the Messageries Maritimes Co. that the Company's “steamer
Salgon yesterday at midnight, for this port.
Mrs. Snooks (a lamb) Oh, John, I hear you have failed Oh, dear, what aball we do?
Snooke (a Hongkong Negociator). It's all right, old girl) we'll clear $50,000 out of the
transaction
two secret society members, Li and Nich, were decapitated at Wuchang. Nieh pretended that be was an expectant Tautal in Klangan and lived la grand style. Both men were large In stature and of great strength.
I be
1479
....... Tatal...............1479,650
great length into the detalle.. The pluniff's cotton bare on, the reels and on the boxes A: goat's head, and the defendants had a stag'a head in the same position, easliv mistakable. Messrs. Becher, Louis & Co the managers The boxes of reels had on the outside a picture of the Penjom Phang Company, Ltd., bave just of a cotton mill, several medals, and a Chinese received Information from the mines that the inscription, all of which the spurious cation result of the October crushing is as follows's— manufacturers bad imitated to closely that 370 tons quarts have been milled, yielding aan Ignorant up-country Chinswoman could return of 175 ounces of gold bullion, being at the not be expected to know the difference, unless that amount is exclusive of the gold still pared them closely. The cotton was mannface rate of g det. 11 grs. of gold to the ten of quarts, she had both kinds before her and com remainin in the concentrates which have been lured mainly for the Chinese trade, as shown by collected for further treatment. These concau- the Chinese label; and the resemblance of the trates assay 17 oz 17 dwt, of gold to the ton of German cotton to the Huddersfield article way, concentrates.
to close that it had been extensively confused, The statement as to the richness of the with it, the plaintiffs' sales falling off very con-
Able Imitation of the marks and general get: Europe of the well known gods. The only material Tapan................................. difference was in the colour of the labels, one being green and the other red: The defendants Coast of Slam poor ignorant up-country Chinawoman would easily imposed upon by the defendants or those who took their cotton to peddle it about from Bombay
Salgón.
village to village. Of course, the name "3. Brook and Brothers" was not used ; but many of the inbabllants of Chios could not read English." In their blind ignorance they were persuaded that the 'German cotton was or their fifteen cash-perhaps even twenty cash fondly believing they had get the teal Brook's and the only original Goat. Imagine their horror and dismay or finding out the insidious treachery perpetrated on them Picture the and finding on her return home that she was despair of the poor child, sent to the rustic grocery store for a spool of the Old Reliable harbouring a horrible German stag in her innocent, bosom ! And in China there is no money returned 1 No wonder that to the Chinese a white man is a "devil ; no wonder the reigning dynasty is unpopular; no wonder the country is still steeped to the lips la misery of forty centu ies! This stag's head cotton reel and crushed beneath the accumulated ignomace business must be nipped in the bobbin-bud, I dealers trading off sparlons Imitations at low mean. Do not be defrauded by, unscrupulous prices. If you do not see what you want in the window, go inside and ask for it. Ask for Brook's Rewing cotton and see that you get it. And then will be an end of discontent, And poverty no more will weigh us down, And misery will yield to merriment, And everyone will have a golden crowe.
(To be continued):
Lavite attention to our first supplies WHETHER the typhoon has gone to Jericho, or time (the two previous games having been ele interest to many-for instance, to a Brook's, and trustfully, paid their tan cith Rangoon, la respect to commercial progress.
or
CONFECTIONERY
Kamchatka; or Timbucten, we wot nat, but anyhow it is not in the China Sea, for Dr. Doberck reports to-day that the barometer is AND sising, and gradients are steep for northerly
CHRISTMAS GOODS
RECEIVED BY THE LAST MAIL.
JORDAN. ALMONDS, NOUGAT, BUT TER SCOTCH, ASSORTED TOFFEES, DRAGEES, PRALINES, and a large selection
of PURE CONFECTIONERY from the leading
Manufacturers.
CADBURY'S SPECIAL CHOCOLATE
CREMES.
winds.
Unterrified Scot-Donald Malcolm Re evening in "Lobeng in," He just arrived at the
+
Magistrate-What is your name, Str ?
MacDonald, your Honor.
Magistrate-What nationality, Sir? Mac(after a gasp of astonishment)—A German, your Worship |
(Magistrate faints and is carried out of count). MR. Hearson, late an engineer in the Royal Navy, whose desertion from the Service crested considerable air at home a few months back, left Shanghal for Nanking the other day to take up his appointment as Instructor in the Engi- neering Department of the Chinese Imperial Naval College.
The football teams of "G"and "H"Companies of the A. & S. Highlanders will meet for the third draws) in the contest for the St. Andrew's Society's medals, at the Happy Valicy to-morrow afternoon. Play will commence at 415 tbsp. Then parts of the opposing teams have already been pablished, HERR Gocize, a well-known' tendr, had to travel from Cologne to Frankfort and appear the same wings in time to "go ob." After vanquishing the villain who aspersed her, he embraced the Elsa of the occasion. As he did not know her, he whispered, while holding her fondly in his arma, "Allow me to have the honour of Introducing myself to you. My name is Gaetze, of Cologne:" THE Dell Courant of the 1st October says that the Deli Steamship Company his lost so of its capital and that a meeting of shareholders has been called to decide whether the affairs of the company shall be thrown into Liquidation. The Courant considers that the | for Delf and suggests that the merchants of the stoppage of this company would be a bad thing place should combine to put the concern on is
THE Hankow correspondent of the N. C. Dally News, writing, on the 6th inst, says that the Foreign Defence Committes there had arranged to bare a parade the previous evening, which so alarmed Viceroy Chang Chib-tang? that he plained to the Foreign Ministers. The Ministers telegraphed to the Taungli Yamen, who com telegraphed to Hankow to ask why the foreigners were about to attack Wachang. The parade
Missionary-At Canton ----Sarah Guinevere, what have we for dinner to-day?
Missus--That plece of cold boiled mutton,feet again. dear,
Missionary-Well, Madame, you can say the grace, but I will go along to the Shameen Hotel!
and dinel
PINE, APRICOT, CHERRY, LIME, GUAVA, and other FRUIT JELLIES in great was prosecuted by Inspector Lysaght, of the Arthe Magistracy to-day Charles Short, sergeant, Naval Yard Police, for stealing $110, entrusted to him in virtue of his employment at the Naval Yard Police canteen, on Oct. 3ist and Nov. 15th, No evidence was taken, and the case was re-
variety.
TOM SMITH'S CHRISTMAS CRACKERS.manded until Wednesday,
It has been an open secret in the colony for same days past that Mr. H. H. Joseph, agent for COLOURED OPALS mounted in Plush, the F. & O. 5. N. Co. at Shanghai, wou'd succeed Mr. E. L. Woodin as Superintendent at representing favourite subjects.
this port: We understand, however, that the appointment will not be announced until after the return of Mr. Woodin from Japan.
was countermanded !
THE twins of Lacona, rivals of the famous Siamese pair, were expected to arrive in New York last month. They are known as the Tocel brothers, and were born in Lacona, Italy. on July 4, 1875. They have one body, one pair of legs, lour arms and two heads. One head is of fair complexion, resembling the mother, and speaks Italian and French. The other head in of dark complexion, like, the father, and speaks German and Engjiab,'
A large assortment of ENGLISH and THE Straits Timer of the 6th inst. remarks that JAPANESE CHRISTMAS CARDS, of band-with buyers and few sellers." The Hongkong enterprising Chinese there are talking of in-
"the market in Raubs and Jelebus is secultive, || Tux Singapore Free Prass says that some|
market in these stocks is likewise sensitive bat, troducing hack ghurries to Hongkong, but thinks some and artistic designs, mulțable to all tastes, at all events as far as Jelebus are concerned, that with dickanas and omnibuses to contend there are few buyers and plenty of sellers. The with the prospect of the gharries receiving attempted "boom" in Jelebus, engineered from sufficient patronage to make them pay is not Singapore, completely missed fire in this colony. very promising. We beg to differ from our contemporary's view. A limited number of yield a fiandsome return,
and at moderate prices.
In this part of the world, where the various malle arrive and depart at all hours of the day, and study the possibility of delaying a hoat half sn hour so as to save a week's walling for the next, late postage stamps are a constant necessity, In most civilised places, "late fees" are either the half or the whole of the original postage. Here they are more. A half-ounce letter goes to Europe for even cents; late, seven more ? Navy. Te more. This Is patter of military man, or to a lawyer or to a registrar general, or to an engineer of public works; so that the Official Members of Couscll never think of it. The Treasurer probably does, with a chuckle. But the shipping community, and the merchants of the Colony had it means dollars year. Now, if the fee could be equalised with every day, and hundreds a month, and thousands the original postage, it would bring Hongkong in one respect up to the level of other places all over the world, Fancy that I THE members of the Hongkong Rifle Associa. tion had a capital afternoon's outing on Satur- day, although it is to be regretted that only nine weather was moderately favorable for good "abootista" took part in the competition. The marksmanship, but nothing very exceptional was done in the way of tall scoring. At 200 yards that steady and improving markman, Mr. E. Robinson, tied with Col-Sergt. Mack with 29 points, and at sea the former again led the van with a very creditable 33, Mr. Watson being sccord with 30. At 600 yards Watson turned the tables, piling up 33 in good form, Color-Sergt. Bord taking second honors with 30. Color Sergt. Mack, Mr. Robinson, and Mr. Watson were the winners of the "spoons" at the three ranges in the order named, and Watson's aggre gate of 62 for the Cup was also the highest, but MEETING being handicapped this honour fell to Color- are the leading half-dozen scores — Serge Bard with a total of 58. The following
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Me Wagon Mr. R. Robinson Col, Sergi. Royd Inpe for H Sir Robertson ********
Col Sagt. Hack come inmatessen
290 500
600 Jarda, yarda yariz Total
44 10
36
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£4
30
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71
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77
12 By.
OF THE LEGISLATIVE
COUNCIL.
· It is evident that, tested by the rice or the total volume of trade, Stum holds her own with all the pons of Lower Burma, except during the past 30 years. Bal-Rangeen and all the regions dependent on it have progressed from twice to three times as rapidly in that. time, the principal progress being made in the province of Pegu, with its great delts plains.
in rate of progress The delta p'a'ns to the of the Irawadi and the Sittang. Careful examle nation reveals hat one cause for the difference Saigon and Bangles districts, and Maulmela and Akyab, in Bunina, are just na rich as those about Rangoon, and water communication la as sufficient in respect to the one part of Indo- China as the other. The market of the world, too, are equally accessible. Furthermore the two to three millions of inhabitants of Pega are ant more fadastrious than the 10 to 12,000 009 of Slam, of whom navle half are Chiness. And the same may be said of Cochin Chins. The
land-tex in Slam is less than it is in Burm." The great, the one reason for the differance, thes appears to be this: That in the province of Pegu there has according to official returns, been a large and steady expenditure on public works for aver thirty years; for the development of the ressurces of the province. From £250,000 to £500 000 have been spent yearly in the whole of Burma-probably one half or more of it on administrative or protective work, equally the reproductive works, ruch as embankment divided throughout the country; but almost all
and cannis, ronds and bridges, to open up the remate parts of the country, have been far more
this afternoon. There were present:-H. E.
A meeting of the Legislative Council was held lavishly bestowed on Peru than on any other part of Parma Sloce 1860 from £3 0:0,000 to Major-General Digby Barker, Officer Admini-5000,000 sterling have been spent by the stering the Government, Mr. W. M. Goodraan Supreme Government on such worke in Pegu, (Acting Colonial Secretary); Mr. A. I. Leach besides filly £3,000,000 1 the constraction of: Acting Attorney-General) Mr. F. A. Cooper districts spend large smas annually la 350 miles of railway... The self-governing (Acting Sarveyor-General); Mr. J. H. Stewart third and fourth-rare Lockhart (Registrar-General); Mr. N. G.
country roads" and. Mitchell-Innes (Colonial Treasurer); Comr, W
miner improvement works, such as bridges,. C.H.Hastings (Acting Harbour Master); Mesars, embankments and "drains ; in addi∙lon to the T. H. Whitehead, C, P. Chater, and Ho Kal. large sums expended by ma-leipalliles euch as: the Rangoon Town Connril· On the Iawidl.. MINUTZEJA JUGA SE The minates of the last meeting were read expended, reclaiming over 1,000 square mich embankments some £500,000 hive been and confirmed,
of 1,350,000 acres of splendid agricultural landi
over 100 square miles at #rominal cost of So remunerstivé-are some «Ethem that Macobla embankment, on apfriend of the de'ta, reclaimed 20000, and is now annually reurring w the
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FUDLIC WORKS. of a despatch from the Acting Governor and The Colonial Secretary lud on the table copies eply from Lord Knutsford, referring to publie
Works.
It is with extreme reluctance that we have again to call attention to the ridiculous vapourings of the shallow-brained buffoon who every Saturday night in the China Mail, above the signature "Brownie," makes himself be laughingstock of everyone the number is severely limited-who roads his childish trash. The assertion, appar- ently made in xil seriousness, that the steamer striking it, when coming into harbour through Li htning discov red an unknown rock, by
the Sulphur Channel, is a misrepresentation of the most wantonly mischievous description. Every man, in this colony who has the slightest acquaintance with seafaring matters, knows quite well that there are no unknown rocks in Sulphur Channel,or in a yother channel in the vicinity of In Sulpbar Channel, the captain of the Lightning would at once have applied for a court of loquiry, to show that any binme for the accident his vessel met with, lay with the naval anthorities who surveyed the harbour, and not with himself, ed by the Colonial Spartaty, the Belling Of On the motion of the Attorney General second. Besides, any special reference to the Lightning'dinance Amendment Bill was read a first time. mishap, until some definite and reliable
THIS YEAR'S ESTIMATES.
The Colonial Secretary may d the first reading of a Further Appropriation Bli for 1891, which was made to include public works extraordinary, by supplementary estimates and vated next year.
First reading prased;
St»te mère than that rum in land-taxes arid rice trade of the province averages about £4 per "duty 1: The final regule fa that the value of the
head per annum.
'In` Stem, however, the expenditure or a works
A. S. WATSON & CO.. LD. THE Band of the A. & S. Highlanders will play gharles, properly managed, 'would probably the island, Had any such discovery been made instead of leaving that Item to be provided for for the development of the resource of the
THE HONGKONG DISPENSARY,
ESTABLISHED AD, 1841. Hongkong, 1st November, 1891.
Is
BIRTH.
wife of J. TRAVERS SMITH, of a SOD,
The Hongkong Telegraph.
the following programme at the Officern' Men to-morrow, commencing at 8p.m.
March
Selection * Ramon, of Roglaad”........Ok
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TER Kobe Chronicle reports that Mr. W. G Jobnico, lately appointed manager of the Hlogo Hotel, shot himself fatally at eight o'clock in the morcing of the Bit last, at the Jiytel Hotel, Osaka. He left the Hiogo Hotel on Saturday the 7th at
a p.m. with the intention of going to Arima, and particulars had been made public, was in shocic- on Sunday letters were rec ived from there|log_taste." "Brownie" sichly deserves keel- which are said to have sinted bis intention of | hauling.
Op 108.........Mandalain. Valad... The Graasdiers Selection.Rip Van Winkle"...... Planquetta. Cornes SolarE Return And Stay
Godfrey
ANOTHER attempt to smuggle ammunition. into China was discovered on Saturday. A thousand roweds of ball cartridge and Bo boxes of perces At Peking, on the 3rd November, 1891, the son caps were stowed on a junk for shipment taking his life From Arima be must have THE Secretary of State'drops down on the to China without the regulate consent or kaos-proceeded to Osaka, where the rash act was local Government for having Introduced the ledge of the authorities, and a Chinaman-con- committed. nacted with the rifampt was brought before M..
electric light in the streets of Hongkong Wise to-day, convicted, and dined groo, which HERE is another very pretty case which we without first baring obtained his gracious cordially commend to the careful attention of permission. In a despatch, dated the 6th was paid down at once.
Mr. Michell-Inngs. An excise officer stepped October, addressed to the Officer Adminis Chianwoman at Mong-kok yesterday and saldtering the Governaient, Lord Kaalaford says
"It appears that the annual cost of lighting wanted to search her. What else he may have wanted is not stated, and perhaps it is as the itseld will be increased nearly 50 per cent. well so. Anyhow the poor unprotected female by the partial introduction of Electric lighting, made a fight for it, and raised Cain to such good and I consider that this large expenditure should not harp been incurred without obtaining the effect that a crowd gathered and the officer was nearly lynched. Serve him sight. Way It was previous sanction of the Secretary of State. had the audacity to prosecute the woman "nearly," and not completely." Then he am aware that the estimated Increase in the assessed taxes will more than for obstructing him in the execution of his cover this increased expenditure, but in view of "Duty" A brother excise officer who won pre- the heavy outlay on other works of local im- sent pored that the man made no attempt to provement, especially the Water and Drainage ever mentioned such a proceeding. Nor was get the woman.io.a.police station for starch, norworks now in hand, it is a question whether it would not have been wiser to postpone the the attempted search made under the superel introduction of Electric lighting, for which no slon of European sergeant, The charge of argent necessity bas, so far as I am aware, been obrtinction was of course dimissed; but whit shown to existé
to be done with the oficer? Will Dr. Ho Kill kindly note?
HONGKONG, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 1891.
TELEGRAMS.
THE AMERICAN ELECTIONS;
LONDON, November gik, The elections at present taking place in the United States indicate, that the Democrats, will
be victorious.
Mr. McKinley has been elected Governor of the State of Ohio, defeating the Democratic and -Free-Coinaga-candidate.———
New York's Senators remala Democratie.
*RIOTS IN IRELAND, During the visit of Mr. Dillos, M.P., to Water, ford, several sanguinary faction fights took place, and it is reported that 150 persons were injured:
HURRICANE IN THE CHANNEL.
November 13th.
A severe huicane bas occurred in the English Chapel. Numerous wrecks have taken place on the coast of Kent and Sussexs forty persons have perished.
LOCAL AND GENERAL.
Tax U.3,6, cruiser Alert arr ved here yesterday from Amoy......
A REGULAR mending of Perseverance Lodge, No. 1165, E.C., will be held in Freemasons Ball Zetland Street, this araning, at 8.30 for 9 o'clock precisely.
brethren are cordially
.
AN Interesting, tourney at American bowls was played on the 12th and 14th inst. between teams representing the Hongkong and German Clubs respectively. The conditions were eight men salde, every raan to roll twice on each of the four alleys, the alleys of both Clubs being utilised. The bowling was not of a very high class, scores ruling unusually low, and evane tually the Britishers won by a majority of 403 ping, totalling grip to thele opponents 8712, A JINRICKSHA containing a European was going along Queen's Road on Saturday night among the crowd that throngs the narrowest part, when owing to Insufficient protection the whole turnout, coolies, man, and vehicle, fall into one of the Governusent pufall. The man was taken up very badly hurt. It is not expected that the Government will take any step, even if the
Colonial Service.
BUILDING ORDINANCE AMENDMENT. BILL..
Had the
country is almes wil up to the present time, though it most besisted a contract to build a
given to an English firm of contractors State Raliway from Bangkok to Korat, a distance of 168 miles, ben just been Messrs. Murray, Campbell & Co, and a THE OFFICIAL REPORT—WHAT IS 1TË Mr. Whitehead, entering late, apologised for
line from the capital to the town of Paknam, not being able to come earlier, and asked Leave 74 miles, near the mouth of the Melnam to suggest an operation in the minutes. His ver is now in course of construction by motion on the Qarantine Question at the lait Umited If bility pemory floated in Bangkok in meeting was withdrawn only on His Excellency's June last....Canale ex'st about Ayutla (the old undertaking to appoint Comm'salon. He now Capital) and Bangkok for the benefit of those begged to ask that that undertaking be noted in places; and the Menam is united to the Meklong the minates.
and Han Paklong by amali cana's, which aresadly His Excellency, dald as the minutes had out of order. Another canal rong rue north from been passed and signed it was out of order to ne's of commerce guld and should be multi- Bangkok för about forty miles. Theo • “chin alter them. There would be a suficient record In the published repoft programing (plied with Immensandvantage, Hither otadahas Mr. Whitehead (greed that that Could be developed in Slam by the unassisted resources sufficient; but as he sat down, he looked as if of the country, which say without question, he Siamese Government he were remembering how many times within the magnifront. past few weeks the official members have com spent at much, or even half much, plained of inaccuracies In the published more on pubile works for the development reports."
of their dominfony xx. has been to. THE MERCHANT SHIPPING BILIA
disbursed in Pegu, the volume of trade would The Council went feto Committee on the Mer. have been as grest, If not greator, as that chant Shipping (Amendment) Bill of Pegt to-day. But le is not, and we fear never „On the mastian, of MWhitehead, the clause will be unless 2 clean sweep beade of thyre empowering the Governor in Conseil, Gobies and genuy who, under the pt fise of loyalty Executive) to make, such regulations as that to their Sovereign, are doing incsics fable mischler seem, advisable, which shall come, into force and intentionally, fall to give af Get to "many whes published was altered notion of the condition of his subjse Soch men 'of the King's commands relativet, the amelioras This is all very fine, but it will perhaps be besides being published the rules, most, alio, and should be Zaald. With severely admitted, even by the "official phalanx," this be submitted 10 · Legislative Council The the Hongkong community are in a better position usual course in making rakst for dealing with electric lighting was required for our streets. The public pay the piper and have a right to select the tune. If Hongkong possessed a Municipal Council these petly complaints would never occur; bis saplant lordship would very properly be told to mind his own business,
European die, as-ha way not an official of the ↑ Aar extraordinary general meeting of the share-than Lord Knutsford to decide whether or not matters of detail is not to submit them to 117 held alreadyZERE HALving been too long with
holders of the Jelebu Mining and Trading Company, Limited, was held in the Exchange Room, Singapore, on the 7th, for the purpose of confrming a resolution passed at an ears ordinary general meeting on the 23rd October
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SUPREME COURT
IN ORIGINAL JURISDICTION, (Before Chief Justice Sir J. Russell, and
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Legislature.
But to revert to the exports, it say serva soma (suggested to him periously by ML Keswick, subject of refer
On the motion” of the Attorney-General useful purpoio. If we dwell spa cially upon the
now absent) the clause dealing with bribery wasPAY THE RICE INDUSTRY OF HAMA ON made to apply equally, to offering bribes
The past your bas, If may be safely averred, In reply to Mr, Chater, Cepedastingscatated been a good one for the agriculturist and the that the passenger regulations were not taken to Government, whose interests are identicals apply to private launches or yachtsch) CHIN
On sec. ar, compellier all fancies plytos in though but few of them have suficient intelligence to understand it Agricatione posred
had noticed that it was of lule use to survey bullocks, teet-seed, rose, sapan and ebony wood of the Colony to undergo periodical into the lap of the s ation fully 18,000,000 piçuls survey of engines, bollers, and other barth of rice, which at why $1 per picul amounts to The Attorney General said that Mr. Keswick $6,000, Bal des this, tobacco, pepper bollers and engines only, if the bottom of the and other prodcts contributed Issgely to the ship was likely to fall out. di nyanine i dew adds national wealthy The amount ofleak exported, it Mr. Whitehead moved that this clause apply may be added, aggregated 38.73 tons (felling only to launches plying for hire est stron is compared with exports in 1839 of 4411tons).
that
waters
As the Kewloon passenger launch, Morning | Star, was backing out from Fedder's Wharf yesterday morning on her way over to the peninsula with a full cargo of church-goers, hers follows stern came in contact with a sampan made" (ast That the articles of association be altered by to the after end of the launch, An Chun, with the following words being substituted for the the result that two of the occupants of the sam-first sentence in article 88 ending with the words pan fell into the water and were gallantly res. Fan additional $to namely to 36 has been paid, so therell be so food for the services shall be the sum of fifty dollars per cued instanter. Damage to sampan amounting The remuneration of each director for his alligators this trip,
month for every complete calendar monik ha continues la efice. MR. Kaswick had better come back. His Mr. Joaquim occupied the chair; and therp household goods are being removed, and if he were present Mesars, Reid, Helm, Sohrt, -Lim stays away much longer he will on his reigra Eng Keng, Naiuso, Feichtner and essens bave to put up at the Saliors' Homa as a destitute The minutes of the previous meeting were British subject. One felonious removal of pro»,) read, and Mr. Səhət suggested that there should | Stokterlebt and Hirst, sued the China Export, anotable launch explosían early this year, there; and was a vital factor in the naifonal ("ancisi, perty was detected in time and formed the be laserted in the minutes of his speech, the subject of a Magisterial Investigation today, words that the payment to diectors should Wong Tsun, cowherd, was sent to prison for a take affect from the beginning of this half year, month for stealing a puncher and a pair of which was done, and the minutes were soufred. scissors, Mr. Keswick's property, from his The resolution was then put to the meeting and stables. Let the good work go on
confirmed
The Acting Harbour, Master:said that (after.
BROOK'S SEWING COTION. In this metion (commenced this morning, and to be continued to-morros) Messrs. Jonas Brook and Brothers, through their Hongkong agents, Impost, and Bank Company of Hongkong, for was a strong expression of publis, opinion that infringing and fraudulently imitating the trade all launches should be surveyed and the mark, kad otherwise copying the outward coroner's jury added to their verdict sider to appearance of Brook's Sewing Cotton, Me, that palect, og list VERANST Francis, instructed by Marsis. Johnson, Stokes, The glakse was allowed in stand T and Master, was for the plälatili, and Mr. For
idness. This crepa this year (1291) although good resikra to farmers and ridd innen. Were bably somewhat less than in 1889, will bring in
protected by Government (and spend money, la prosperous tims
se of liv
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